Class Notes

1969 Lynn Schwartz Rosen (MA), ’72W (EdD) has written a novel, A Man of Genius (Una Publications). Lynn is the author of previous short works of fiction, published in journals such as Texas Quarterly and Caprice. She’s also a lifelong resident of Rochester and longtime supporter and mentor of disadvantaged Rochester youth through the RocCity Scholars Program, a community-based after-school program she founded for high achieving Rochester City School District students.

1970 Joseph Amato (PhD) sends an update. He writes: “Since leaving Rochester in 1966 a half century ago, and completing my published dissertation on Mounier and Maritain: A French Catholic Understanding of the Modern World (Catholic University of America Press) under the insightful and generous guidance of Professor A. W. Salomone, I have had a single teaching and minor administrative career principally at one place: Southwest Minnesota State University in Marshall, Minnesota. There I taught, administered, and created the history department and a unique program of rural and regional studies. Aside from the glories and scuffles of making and keeping a small college afloat, my devotion has been to my wife, Catherine Bavolack Amato ’66N, and four children, while my mounting ‘madness’ is writing. I have written, coauthored, and published almost 40 books and numerous essays. My writing has ranged, perhaps strayed, across three areas: local, family, and regional history; memoirs focused on a reflective boy in love with a future in golf and midlife bypass surgery; and finally and principally, intellectual and cultural history.” His most recent book, published this spring, is My Three Sicilies: Stories, Poems, and History (New York Bordighera). Another book, Everyday Life: A Short History (Reaktion Books), is scheduled for release in October. . . . John Bassett (PhD), president of Heritage University, in Washington state, and a scholar of American literature, has won the Henry Paley Memorial Award from the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities. The award recognizes extraordinary service to students and faculty.

1976 Jonathan Post (PhD) has published A Thickness of Particulars: The Poetry of Anthony Hecht (Oxford University Press). Jonathan holds the title Distinguished Professor of English at UCLA.

1979 Maurice Isserman (PhD), the James L. Ferguson Professor of History at Hamilton College, is the author of Continental Divide: A History of American Mountaineering (W. W. Norton & Co.).

1987 Rupamanjari Ghosh (PhD) has been named vice chancellor of Shiv Nadar University, near New Delhi, India. An expert in experimental and theoretical quantum optics, laser physics, nonlinear optics, and quantum information, she’s been director of the university’s School of Natural Sciences since 2012.

1992 Andreas Arvanitoyeorgos (PhD), an associate professor of mathematics at the University of Patras in Rion, Greece, has published two textbooks. The books, published in Greek by Hellenic Academic Libraries, are Elementary Differential Geometry and Geometry of Manifolds: Riemannian Manifolds and Lie Groups.

1997 William Peniston (PhD) writes: “I am celebrating 20 years at the Newark Museum as its librarian and archivist. As a historian, I have collaborated on the following two projects: Marc-Andre Rafflovich’s Uranism and Unisexuality: A Study of Different Manifestations of the Sexual Instinct, translated by Nancy Erber and William Peniston, edited by Philip Healy with Frederick Roden (Palgrave Macmillan); and Lesbian Decadence: Representations in Art and Literature of Fin-de-Siècle France, by Nicole Albert, translated by Nancy Erber and William Peniston (Harrington Park Press).”

2004 Owen Zacharias (MS) (see ’03 College).

2005 Antoine Yoshinaka, an associate professor of political science at the University at Buffalo, has published two books with Cambridge University Press. He is the author of Crossing the Aisle: Party Switching by U.S. Legislators in the Postwar Era and a coeditor of American Gridlock: The Sources, Character, and Impact of Political Polarization.

2008 Daniel Bud (MS) (see ’08 College).

2009 Benjamín Castañeda Aphan (PhD) has been promoted to principal professor of electrical and electronics engineering at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú in his native city of Lima. He continues as visiting professor of electrical engineering at the Hajim School, and has collaborated with professors Kevin Parker, Renato Perucchio, Amy Lerner, and Scott Seidman. His work in medical imaging has contributed to the diagnostics of tuberculosis, cutaneous leishmaniasis, and cancer. He has also developed an interest in using image-processing techniques to study and help to preserve Peruvian archaeological heritage.